The house where three high school football players are accused of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old cheerleader during a post-game party has been the focus of past police investigations, the town's police chief said Tuesday.

Search warrants for the home in the northern part of town were issued in a narcotics case, but further details were not immediately available, Police Chief Dennis Allen said.

No one Tuesday answered the door or the listed phone number at the home, 324 Pinewood. Neither the property owner nor his wife has a criminal record, according to an Enterprise background check. Neither could be reached for comment Tuesday.

At least two of three Silsbee High School football players charged in the rape of the 16-year-old cheerleader were free on bonds Tuesday, a Hardin County jail official said.

The three were arrested Monday after the girl told police she was raped at a party following the Tigers' game Friday night, Allen said.

Christian Paul Roundtree, 18, Rakeem Bolton, 17, and a 16-year-old male, whose name was not released because he is a minor, were charged with sexually assaulting a child, according to the arrest warrant. None has a criminal record, he said.

Roundtree, a senior, and Bolton, a junior, whose bonds were set at $100,000 apiece, were released late Monday, a Hardin County jail official said. Information on the 16-year-old, taken to the Hardin County Juvenile Correction Center and held on a $100,000 bond, was not immediately available.

Sexual assault of a child is a second-degree felony punishable by up to 20 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

Silsbee High School's football roster lists the two named players as Christopher Rountree, a running back and defen-sive back, and Rakheem Bolton, a wide receiver and defensive back. The spellings of their names on the roster differ slightly from the spellings on the arrest warrant.

The cheerleader and three football players were at a party at the home on Pinewood early Saturday, according to an arrest warrant affidavit filed by the Silsbee Police Department.

The girl told police that three males forced her into a room, held her down and sexually assaulted her, the affidavit states.

When others at the party tried to open the door, two of the males fled through a window of the one-story house, the affidavit states. The third boy remained behind.

One of the boys who fled left behind a pair of shorts, the affidavit states.

One of the males later returned and made threats so he could retrieve his shorts, the affidavit states.

Police were called about 2:40 a.m., the affidavit states.

The cheerleader told police she was sexually assaulted and described three to four attackers, Allen said. Police were investigating whether alcohol was present at the party, he said.

Bolton and the 16-year-old were arrested about 9:30 a.m. Monday at Silsbee High School, Allen said.

Roundtree was later arrested at his grandmother's Silsbee residence, he said.

A fourth male was a suspect but now is serving as a witness, Allen said.

Justice of Peace Robert Ward issued the warrants based on affidavit statements and evidence collected at the scene, Allen said.

On Tuesday, as word of the rape spread through Silsbee, neighbors said they were upset to see the Pinewood home investigated but were not surprised.

"It's something that's unusual," Patsy Goff, 61, who lives next door, said of the sexual assault case. "But anywhere you live, things like this happen."

Outside the neighborhood, some members of the community of about 6,300 residents were stunned by the alleged as-sault.

"I can't make a judgment until I've heard both sides," said Dianne Wright of Silsbee, 48, a member of Advocates for Children and Court Appointed Special Advocates. "It just shocks me, and my concern is whose house was this and where were the parents at the time? Who was overseeing this?

"That's how these things get out of hand - non-supervision of kids.

Lisa Hicks, a 44-year-old lifelong Silsbee resident and a mother of two children in schools here, said she was con-cerned about the alleged sexual assault and the state of teens today.

"It's sick. But does it shock me? Not in this neck of the woods," she said while waiting in a chair at Jimmy'sBarber Shop in Silsbee.